Saulius Ambrozaitis

The Poet

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.

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Cinephilia

With gentle irony, “Cinephilia” unmasks the illusion of film. Characters migrate through the worlds of reality and fantasy, in circumstances that paradoxically have no questions or answers. The two moons of Lars von Trier shine in the night sky, entrancing the main heroes, Roland and Isabel. Roland rents himself a room where he winds up in situations reminiscent of the plots found in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” or Roman Polański’s “The Tenant”. A guy visits Roland, claiming that they known each other, and offers him a lot of money to film his suicide. There begins a kaleidoscopic sequence of events and random acquaintances. They make the characters wander through the worlds of reality and fantasy, sometimes both at the same time. A dark comedy that tells nine related stories in which the fates of the characters intertwine.

Daddy

When their father suddenly dies on holiday, his three children who haven’t spoken in years must work together to bring his corps home.

Dance

Wishing to restore a broken bond with his son, a father throws himself into Vilnius nightlife.

The Isle

A man who is apathetic about life spends his days in seclusion. He is detached from communication and contact with the outside world. An empty and deserted room demonstrates his detachment from his surroundings, his inner world. Suddenly a woman appears in his world. She brings her strange stories into his world. In a language that the man does not understand, she tries to communicate with him, trying to tell him that everything that is broken can be put back together, the cracks will remain as scars, but with them we can continue our journey. By changing the interior he lives in and his inner world, she makes him interested in life. She makes a man interested in her and in himself.

Ungurys

Matas returns to his neighborhood in Vilnius (Lithuania) after fleeing the war in Ukraine. He finds his wife and the friends he left behind when he joined the conflict.

The Night Screening

Watchmaker stumbles into a mysterious cinema and is enraptured by the sight of movie star Lisa sleeping on the screen. His life changes. A girl he meets in the cinema begins leading him through the strange world of cinematic dreams.

Loving

Adela and Benas fall in love over the summer, but their lives pull them apart.

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